Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1887-11-10
HOME. FARM AND GARDEN.

Strong lyo cleans tainted pork
barrels.
Matches should always be kept In
stone or earthen Jar, or in tin.
Onions may be prepared without
the usual accompaniment of tears by
peeling them with tho hands under
water.
Never. never, never punish or in
hict pain on child because you are
angry at what IL has done, unless you
really desire TO assault Our Father
Who art In Heaven. -Pomcroy's Id
rance Thought.
Fine manure for crops is more val
liable than coarse. Hens can break up
manure better perhaps than any of the
machines invented for the purpose.
Scatter some wheat over the pile and
turn them on.-SL Louis Republican.
Cement floors are not rat proof
unless pounded glass be mixed with
the cement before the laying Of the
floor. The ordinary glass Stag from
glass factories is excellent for the pur-
pose. and will cost but little, rs it is
usually thrown away rs refuse. In
didnopoiis Sentinel.
The practice Of mixing the morn
irg's and nights milk is detrimental,
rs IL often causes rapid change II
would be better. IL not too imprac.
ticable, to keep each cows milk sep
arate, but MS this is laborious, the
milk of one milking should at least be
kept from that Of another.
Cottage .-Three-fourths Of
cup Of batter, one cup of white sugar,
one and onc~half cups Of flour, fom
eggs (yolks and whites beaten sep
arately), one tablespoonful Of sweet
milk. one and ono-half teaspoonfuls oi
baking powder, n little salt; flavor witt
lemon. Rub the baking powder into
the -four. Boston Budget.
DIR. Burner writes to the Drug
NetOs that IL vines be Watercd with u
decoction of bitter plants, such rs
wormwood. worms will be unable &c
live upon them. The use of quassia
wood, he says, kills all insects and
worms In Smyrna, where quassia
trees grow, no birds live In them. and
neither insects nor worms are found at
their roots. The method is neither ex-
pensivo nor laborious.
-Delmonico pudding. Three table
spoonfuls corn starch, one quart boil
ing milk, three eggs, whites and yelks
separated; mix yelks with corn starch,
and add the milk gradually; let it boil.
Beat whites TO stin' frOth, add TO it one
tablespoon hcaping full Of white SUI a.
Put corn starch while hot in pudding
dish. cover with frosting and set in
the oven TO brown. To be eaten cold
with swcetoncd cream. 1t is delicious
Toledo Blade.
Our orchards generally produce
full crops only every other year. This
is because the full crop Of one year so
exhausts the fruit producing qualities
of the soil that it is not able to pro-
duce q full crop the next year. Give
it good supply of the proper kind of
manure and thus made up for the loss
" VIZ - N'NN producing HhdAiAi'o VI lh'
soil and you may expect good crops
every year provided you treat your
trees properly in other respects
didRaPoiS Sentinel
Salmon Croqucttes-Bo one-halt
pint of milk, thicken it with table
spoonful of flour and let it become
cold. Mince the meat Of a onc-pound
can Of salmon. or one pound of fresh
salmon; when very fine add salt
spoonful Of white pepper. Moisten
the salmon, mincu with the thickcned
milk and work the whole to a paste.
add very little of the bread crumbs il
too thin. let it become amalgamatcd
over the range and place it in the ice
box until wanted; then shape it into
neat rolls or cones. dip them in egg
and crumbs and fry in plenty Of hot
fat -G0od Cheer